#nyu shanghai

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Eteri Andjaparidze

Classical pianist Eteri Andjaparidze was born in 1956 in Tbilisi, Georgia. By the time she was nine years old, Andjaparidze had made her solo recital debut and performed as a soloist with the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra. She has performed throughout the world and played with major orchestras such as the Montreal Symphony, the London Symphony, and the Shanghai Philharmonic. Andjaparidze was the first Soviet pianist to win the Grand Prix at the Montreal International Piano Competition. She has been named a People's Artist of Georgia. Andjaparidze currently teaches at NYU Steinhardt and Mannes School of Music.

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Damn i really applied to nyu shanghai today and now im in bed thinking… i dont even wanna go to nyu shanghai why the fuck did i do this

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This day in history

#20yrsago Amazing Heinlein discussion on Electrolite http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/004356.html#004356

#10yrsago Victorian Transport Department calls cops on 16 year old for reporting bug that exposed customers’ personal data https://www.wired.com/2014/01/teen-reported-security-hole/

#10yrsago Shanghai hotel provides smog-masks for guests https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1upxm4/shanghai_hotels_know_how_to_pamper_you/

#5yrsago Minnesota AG’s report reveals big telcos are literally letting their infrastructure rot https://www.vice.com/en/article/wj3v5n/american-phone-companies-are-literally-letting-their-networks-fall-apart

#5yrsago Whistleblower: Amazon Ring stores your doorbell and home video feeds unencrypted and grants broad “unfettered” access to them https://theintercept.com/2019/01/10/amazon-ring-security-camera/

#5yrsago Patent trolls celebrate as Trump’s new rules breathes fresh life into parasitic grifter capitalism https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/software-patents-poised-to-make-a-comeback-under-new-patent-office-rules/2/

#5yrsago Why the hell do we continue to believe the carriers’ promises to respect our privacy? https://www.vice.com/en/article/nepx5x/we-could-easily-stop-location-data-scandals-but-we-cower-to-lobbyists-instead

#5yrsago Regardless of political affiliation, over-65s are most likely to share “fake news” (and there’s not much fake news, and it’s largely right-wing) https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/9/18174631/old-people-fake-news-facebook-share-nyu-princeton

#5yrsago El Chapo went down because his sysadmin sold him out https://gizmodo.com/the-feds-cracked-el-chapos-encrypted-communications-net-1831595734

#1yrago The learned helplessness of Pete Buttigieg https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the-courage-to-govern/#whos-in-charge

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Karin Valis on Magic and Artificial Intelligence – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

A House with Many Rooms Interview 2

We are delighted to speak with Karin Valis, machine-learning engineer and esoteric explorer, on the vast subject of how the fields of artificial intelligence and magic overlap, intertwine, and inform each other. We discuss:

The uncanny oracular effects and synchronistic weirdnesses exhibited by large language models,

Conversations with ChatGPT considered as invocation,

AI as the fulfilment of the dream of the homonculus (with the attendant ethical problems which arise),

AI as the fulfilment of esoteric alphanumeric cosmologies (and maybe, like the Sepher Yetsirah, this isn’t so esoteric after all; maybe it’s just science),

And much more.

Interview Bio:

Karin Valis is a Berlin-based machine learning engineer and writer with a deep passion for everything occult and weird. Her work focuses mainly on combining technology with the esoteric, with projects such as Tarot of the Latent Spaces (visual extraction of the Major Arcana Archetypes) and Cellulare (a tool for exploring digital non-ordinary reality for the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Europe). She co-hosted workshops, talks and panel discussions such as Arana in the Feed (Uroboros 2021), Language in the Age of AI: Deciphering Voynich Manuscript (Trans-States 2022) and Remembering Our Future: Shamanism, Oracles and AI (NYU Shanghai 2022). She writes Mercurial Minutes and hosts monthly meetings of the occult and technology enthusiasts Gnostic Technology.

Works Cited in this Episode (roughly in the order cited):

The homonculus passage in the Pseudo-Clementines: Homilies 3.26; cf. Recognitions 2.9, 10, 13–15; 3.47.

On the Book of the Cow/Liber vaccæ: see e.g. Liana Saif. The Cows and the Bees: Arabic Sources and Parallels for Pseudo- Plato’s Liber Vaccæ (Kitab al-Nawams). Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LXXIX:147, 2016.

‘The Measure of a Man’, Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 9, first aired 13 February, 1989.

Doctor Strange, dir. Scott Derrickson, 2016 Marvel Studios.

Recommended Reading:

Karin has a substack where she posts interesting things. Her recent essay Divine Embeddings is particularly relevant to the discussion of alphanumericism in the interview.

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This is apparently getting memed in Italy. The combination of the self-centered whining with the fact that it's structured like this tell-all journalistic examination of the Problems With Today's Study Abroad Programs (The World Must Know) is wonderful.

" While NYU is famed for its foreign offerings in places like Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Berlin, Paris, and Shanghai, I opted for Florence, Italy, in the fall."

Translation: "While other people in my school and major are participating in journalism in politically fascinating places with cultures very different from my own, I went to a city in western Europe."

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Reality Frictions world tour continues

It all started with a single invitation from Jason Mittell to visit Middlebury College to screen Reality Frictions and visit two of his classes. Since Mittell and Middlebury have been at the center of the video essay world for the past decade, I correctly assumed that one would be a class on "Videographic Criticism." What I didn't see coming was Jason's other class, titled "Faking Reality," which resonated even more strongly with the conceptual concerns of Reality Frictions. In fact, my own film came together as the result of a class at UCLA titled "Reality Fictions," coupled, of course, with my own class on "Videographic Scholarship." The trip to Middlebury coincided with the beginning of Fall colors, which made for an incredibly beautiful drive up from Boston and the reception from both students and Middlebury faculty including InTransition co-founder Christian Keathley was correspondingly warm and congenial.

Although it goes against my most reclusive instincts, knowing that I would be in New England motivated me to reach out to old colleagues and friends at Dartmouth and MIT's Open Doc Lab to pitch the idea of additional screenings. Amazingly, these connections paid off in ways I never expected, beginning with a generous invitation from Mark Williams and Daniel Chamberlain for a screening at Dartmouth on my way back to Boston. In the course of working out logistics, Mark put me in touch with a colleague at Shanghai Film Academy with whom he has been developing a collaboration in connection with the ongoing Media Ecology Project. The Shanghai connection was doubly fortuitous -- in addition to inviting me to screen the film, I was asked to deliver a keynote address at an Artificial Intelligence conference at Shanghai University taking place the same weekend.

Although generative AI was only one of the inspirations for Reality Frictions, I have been developing some ideas about the current generation of image synthesis technologies going back to my research on machine learning for Technologies of Vision. The Pujiang Innovation forum's focus on "Entering the Era of AI-generated Art" turned out to be the perfect venue to consolidate and share these initial thoughts, especially regarding the need to historicize the current wave of imaging technologies and aesthetics.

Another riff in the talk emphasized the reciprocal relationships between both human/machine vision and analogue/algorithmic imaging, all of which are resulting in some striking and enigmatic modes of recombination. It was sometimes hard to know how these ideas -- and images! -- were received by the audience, which was clearly focused more on industrial applications and engineering challenges, but the panel discussion afterwards suggested that the perspectives I brought from an art and design context provided a useful counterpart to the conversation.

Another complicating factor was the fact that the primary language of the conference was Mandarin, which necessitated some impressive feats of simultaneous translation enacted by a heroic team of human translators. For all of the hand-wringing about the prospect of lost jobs in the media industries due to AI, my real sympathies lie with the women tasked with the two-way art of live, simultaneous translation. If I had to bet on anyone's job being gone because of AI this time next year, it's theirs.

My next stop after the conference and screening at Shanghai Film Academy was NYU Shanghai, where the excellent Anna Greenspan arranged for a screening of Reality Frictions under the auspices of the Center of AI and Culture she co-directs there. Audiences at both Shangahi universities were remarkably receptive and enthusiastic -- in some cases even more insistent on pursuing the philosophical implications of my deliberately false bifurcation of reality and non-reality than their American college student counterparts.

For the return flight to Los Angeles, I left Shanghai in the afternoon and arrived a couple of hours earlier the same day, making it the longest and most agonizing election day I've ever experienced in more ways than one. Along with generative AI, the other motivating factor behind the film's investigation of the porous boundaries between truth and lie, of course, was the election that was decided a few hours after my return to the U.S. Even with an election outcome that suggests otherwise, I stand by the film's assertion that viewers have greater capacity for distinguishing truth from lie than we sometimes give them credit for. Of course, this reading emerged from within the deep blue bubble of southern California and a day-to-day engagement with media-making as a semiotic exercise. Although I didn't plan it this way, the next stop for Reality Frictions turned out to be in a state that lies at the other end of the ideological spectrum.

The University of Nebraska Lincoln -- thanks to the collaboration of Wendy Katz and Jesse Fleming -- generously hosted both me and Holly for a screening and talk on AI and Creativity, creating an unusual bridge between the Art History and Emerging Media Arts (EMA) programs via the university's Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist series. The reception to both events was again warm and engaged and we got a chance to glimpse both the remarkable profusion of public art on the campus thanks to Wendy's walking tours and some genuinely groundbreaking and inspiring work in mindful design emerging from Jesse's work in the EMA.

The final stop on this leg of pre-holiday screenings took place just a few days after we got back from Nebraska, this time via Zoom. Although it was not possible to arrange a screening at the Open Doc Lab as I passed through Cambridge, the screener I forwarded to them wound up in the hands of Cinematographer/Documentarian extraordinaire Kirsten Johnson, who invited me to screen the film during an upcoming residency at the University of Missouri's School of Journalism, which turned out to be followed by one of the most dynamic Q/A sessions I've had. Although it is still early in this film's life cycle, I am both encouraged by the positivity of the in-person screenings and discouraged by the majority of festival responses. Video essays, as a form, do not fit easily into the pre-existing categories offered by most film festivals. When such categories do exist -- and they are mostly in Europe -- they are almost always limited to a maximum of 20-30 minutes. And while there is something extremely gratifying about touring with a film like this, it is unsustainable in every sense of the word. To close out this thread, I will note one other piece of good news that arrived -- a panel that I organized with Allison de Fren was accepted by SCMS. We will be joined for the upcoming conference in Chicago by my UCLA colleague Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, who has also been touring with her recently completed short film As Long As We Can, and Czech scholar-curator-archivist-editors Jiří Anger and Veronika Hanáková for a roundtable discussion titled "Beyond Electronic Publication: Expanding Venues for Videographic Scholarship." See you in Chicago!

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it is now around 2am something probably will be 3am when i send the ask😭 but whocares I’m enjoying as much as sleepless nights before uni starts  OMG MEDICAL SCHOOL GANG🫶🫶🫶 i was gonna drop out last year because i swear to god our professors are SO ANNOYING like i like some of them but the others you would want to hit them in the face😞 Send help i don’t want to study in nyu anymore guys who wants to take my place in life🙁🙁🙁 i want to become a diagnostic doctor omg house M.D left a mark (lee) YOU CAN SAY WE ARE TRUST FUND KIDS OR SOMETHING my brother kind of lives on our grandfather’s money (from our dad side) because he left some of the money to our father before he died and my precious dad handed it to me (older sister shit🤞🏻) and my brother also so we can live our lives in new york with no difficulties so thank you so much dad💗💗💗my mom and dad’s families actually love each other since my mom’s family was the one that moved to the uk and then during highschool they met so my uncles and aunts are good with each other (even though some of them died hating my parents’s sexualites) HONESTLY FUCK MY GRANDPARENTS I HATE THEM🤓🤓 except my grandpa who had money i love you my 爺爺💗💗💗

My parents don’t really communicate that much and no longer queer family gc😿😿😿 crying crying crying🥲🥲 

but it is okay my dad and his boyfriend are gonna move and will stay in Kingston in uk i think my mom and my step-mom are moving to beijing but me and my brother are moving to shanghai next year  OH AND YES WE CAN ADOPT DW MY GREAT GRANDMA FROM MY DAD’S SIDE IS KOREAN WELCOME TO THE FAMILY LONDON💗💗💗

good morning

girl dont drop out I CANT EVEN AFFORD TO DROP OUT BRUH UAHDSAIJDSKD become an academic weapon u can do this i believe in you

yall are literally trust fund kids dont deny it thats crazyyyahdjsadha... died hating your parents sexualities though whewehwjhdjah ;(

NOO WHAT HAPPENED TO QUEER FAMILY GC THAT WAS SO ICONIC IM CRYING...

i went to the uk this year for the first time for spring break but lowkey even though i hate america i dont think i could really get by and live in big cities. maybe travel idk... maybe i could i just dont think i could cause im broke... money is very important to me (thats why i want to become a doctor fuckers!!!! so i can take people's money!!! jkjkjk) im always calculating and crying...... this is my life

IM PART OF THE NERDSUNGIE FAMILY LETS GO

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Oxford, Cambridge, NYU and more… ’24 grads from Wellington College International Shanghai are going places

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Oxford, Cambridge, NYU and more… ’24 grads from Wellington College International Shanghai are going places

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Oxford, Cambridge, NYU and more… ’24 grads from Wellington College International Shanghai are going places

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Oxford, Cambridge, NYU and more… ’24 grads from Wellington College International Shanghai are going places

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IM FUCKI BC APPLYING TO NYU SHANGHAI…. FUCK ITTT

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Oxford, Cambridge, NYU and more… ’24 grads from Wellington College International Shanghai are going places

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The Moons of Pluto (2021) András Cséfalvay & Lukáš Likavčan

Video 7:27 min

​​A collaborative work between visual artist András Cséfalvay and philosopher Lukáš Likavčan, The Moons of Pluto is an audiovisual commentary on the cosmological role of science. In the spirit of writer Sylvia Wynter, it recuperates the notion of the human as a storyteller and myth-maker as it surveys narratives about ancestrality and cosmic origins in the Western scientific-tradition, usually obscured by the modernist insistence on secular rationality. Elements of astronomy, physics, metaphysics and Earth-system sciences are enacted as planetological figures – the five moons of Pluto (Charon, Kerberos, Nyx, Styx, and Hydra) – whose stories weave together a web of associations that reflect on the cosmic background of the Western culture, and that of science as a discipline.

András Cséfalvay is a visual artist, digital storyteller, and mytho-poet from Bratislava, currently teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. He studied painting and mathematics and wrote a dissertation on the usefulness and reality of fiction. He delves into the relationship between culture and technology and the political and ethical aspects of listening to non-dominant voices in world interpretation. His latest works look at the relationship between astronomers and indigenous peoples in constructing the Mauna Kea telescopes, the flight of dinosaurs as a technology for survival after extinction, and the reclassification of the planet Pluto. He is a receiver of the Oskar Čepan Young Visual Artist Price, a member of The New Centre for Research and Practice, and a co-founder of the Digital Arts Platform at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. Lukáš Likavčan is a Global Perspective on Society Postdoctoral Fellow and research affiliate at the Center for AI & Culture at NYU Shanghai. His areas of expertise cover philosophy of technology and environmental philosophy. He is the author of Introduction to Comparative Planetology (Strelka Press, 2019). Previously, Likavčan studied philosophy at Masaryk University and obtained his Ph.D. in environmental studies. He also held visiting research positions at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; faculty positions at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design as well as the Center for Audiovisual Studies FAMU in Prague.

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Jobs: 2024 Linguistics Tenure Track Assistant/Associate Professor , Wenzhou-Kean University

ICYMI: Wenzhou-Kean University (WKU), located in Wenzhou, China, one of three Sino-American universities along with NYU Shanghai and Duke Kunshan University, is approved by the Ministry of Education of China. Launched in 2012, WKU offers a unique model of higher education in partnership with Kean University, a comprehensive, public university in the state of New Jersey that is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The School of English Studies seeks to fill a tenure-track pos http://dlvr.it/Sw8mx9

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prompts que queiram ver por aqui? Acredito isso que possa ajudar players sem muita criatividade

existem plots que vocês queiram ver por aqui? a criatividade fica limitada algumas vezes x_x

Mod Brooke usando os poucos neurônios dela para ajudar futuros roxinhos, vamos lá!

Muse é filho(a) de um professor(a) da NYU Incheon (isso pode ser bom ou ser péssimo);

Muse é um(a) aluno(a) transferido(a) do campus da NYU de Abu Dhabi, Shanghai, Berlim, etc (todos para além do original e nesse caso incentivamos o uso de faceclaims com as respectivas etnias);

Muse é um calouro e decide se desafiar entrando em um clube que até então não tem nada a ver com ele;

Muse é uma mulher que nasceu com toda sua vida planejada, sem espaço para escolher por si, mas em um dos clubes universitários (Vórtex ou 7 Colors) da NYU Incheon ela encontra refujo para ser ela mesma;

Muse é introvertido(a) e sempre odiou trabalhar em grupo, mas por recomendação da sua psicóloga, entrou no Global Talks para desenvolver suas habilidades sociais;

Muse era um k-idol, mas pelo fracasso da carreira, decidiu seguir seu outro sonho, estudar (algum curso da área da saúde) pela sua vocação para cuidar da saúde e do bem-estar do outro;

Muse tentou entrar na NYU Incheon por três anos consecutivos e só na terceira tentativa conseguiu, finalmente, ingressar na faculdade dos sonhos.